Pasting and assembling machine



E. E. WINKLEYI.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

- APPLICATION FILED AUG-5. 1916. l 1,356,845. Patented Oct. 26,1920.

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E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

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E. E. WINKLEY.

- PASTING AND ASSEMBUNG MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED'AUG=5.1916.

Patented 060.26, 1920.

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E. E..W|NKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHiNE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG|5, 1916' 1,356,845. I Patented Oct. 26, 1920 X5 SHEETS-SHEET- 4.

E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE. APPLICATION FILED AUG-5.1916.

1,356,845. Patented Oct. 26,1920;

15 SHEETSSHEET 5.

E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-5. 191s.

Patented Oct. 26, 1920.

15 SHEETSSHEET 6.

E. E. WINKLEY.

.PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

' APPLICATION FILED AUG-5. 191s. -1,356,845. Patented Oct. 26, 1920.

I5 SHEETS-SHEET 7.

E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE. APPHCATION FILED AUG-5. 1916.

1,356,845. I Patented Oct. 26,1920.

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whim-U E. E.v WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG.5.1916.

1,356,845, I Patenwd Oct. 26, 1920.

I5 SHEETSSHEET 9.

E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-5, I916- 1,356,845, Patented Oct. 26, 1920.

15 SHEETS-SHEET :0.

E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED AUG-5. 1916.

Patented Oct. 26,1920.

I5 SHEETSfSHEET I I.

E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

APPLlCATlON FILED AUG-5,1916.

1,356,845. Patented 0m 26,1920.

l5 SHEETS-SHEET I2- E. E. WINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

, APPLICATION FILED Aus.5. 191s.

' Patented 0013. 26, 1920.

15 SHEETSSHEET I3.

E. ELWINKLEY.

PASTING AND ASSEMBLINGMACHINE.

APFILICATION FILED AUG-5.1916.

1,356, 45, Patented Oct 26,1920.

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E. E. WINKLEY. PAS'TING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

APPLICATION FILED Auebs. 1916.

1,356,845. Patented Oct. 26,1920.

15 SHEETS-SHEET I5- UNITED sures;

ERAS'IUS E. WINKLEY, OF LYNN, MASSACHUSETTS, ASSIGN MENTS, TO UNITED SHOE MACHINERY CORPORATION, OF

A CORPORATION OF NEW JERSEY.

ifa ENT OFFICE.

OR, BY MESNE ASSIGN- PATERSON, NEW JERSEY,

PASTING AND ASSEMBLING MACHINE.

Application filed August 5, 1916.

will enable others skilled in the art to which.

' it appertains toinake and use the same.

This invention relates to. machines which pieces of sheet-material are assembled in piles, with paste or adhesive applied I to the adjacent surfaces of the pieces, so as to cement them together and form solid blocks.

One object of the invention is to produce a machine, which shall perform automatically some,

and preferably all, of the sequence of operations comprising feeding the pieces of material in the proper numb'er and in suitably graded sizes, applying paste to certain of the pieces, superposing the pieces on each other in the .proper alinement or relation, pressing the pieces together, holding them in compressed relation until the paste has set and caused the firm adhesion of the pieces,

and finally discharging the block, so formed,

from the machine.

Ainore specific object of the invention is to produce a machine for producing elongated blocks, of material such as leatherboard, these blocks being formed of strips of graded widths, so as to produce a crosssection approximating the longitudinal secv tion'of a shoe-heel, and the blocks so produced being adapted to be cut into short pieces from which heels may be formed by trimming or rounding them in any convenient manner. Y

To the foregoing ends the invention resides in the combinations and sub-combinations of parts of the machine illustrated in the accompanying drawings andhereinafterdescribed, as it is defined in the appended claims. a g

in the accompanying drawings Figure l is a plan-view of a machine embodying"the present invention, with certain parts broken j away to reveal details of construction; Fig.

2 is a side-el vation of the machine with the i Specification of Letters Patent.

the preceding figures;

of the type above referred. to,

shown in Fig. 8

exception of the upper part of the feed Patented Oct. 26, 1 920. Serial No. 113,332.

mechanism; Fig. 8 is an. end-elevation of the machine, looking from'leftto right in-' Big. 2, with parts ofthe framework brokenaway; Fig. 4 is a partial elevation of the mach ne from the direction opposite to that of Fig. 2, showing, particularly, the feeding and pasting mechanism; Fig.5 is a partial vertical section, approximately on the .1

line 5-5of Fig. 4., but on a largerscale than Fig. 6 is a partial vertical' section, approximately on the line 6-6 of Fig. 5; Fig. 7 is a partial section, ap-

proximately on the line 7 7 of Fig. 6,

showing, particularly, the paste-rollers and parts immediately associated therewith;

Fig. 8 is a partial end-elevation of that part of the machine comprising, particularly, the feed-rollers and paste rollers and the automatic stop-mechanism, looking from right to left in Fig. 1; Fig. 9 is a plan-view of the left-hand portion of the mechanisms including, particularly, certam details of the automatic stop-mechanism; ig. 10 is a fragmentary plan-view, partly in horizontal section, showing par ticularly the parts of the mechanism shown in the right-hand portion of Fig. 8,and including the automatic stop-mechanism; Fig. 11 is a partial side-elevation, from the same direction as Fig. 4, of that part of the machine; including the clamps and their actuating-mechanism; Fig. 12 is an endelevation ofthat part of the machine shown in Fig. 11, looking from right to left in the latter. figure, with parts broken away to ,re veal the'construction; Fig. 13 ,is a perspective view of a heel-strip block, such as is manufactured by the machine of the present invention; Fig. 14: is a section, approximately on the line l414; of Fig.1l, but on a larger scale than thelatter figure; Fig. 15

is a section, approximately on the line Fig. 16 is a partial sec- 18 -18 in F ig; 4, of the mechanism for supplying wedge-strips; Fig. 19 i I is a plan-view, in section on the line 19 19 in Fig. 18; Fig. 20 is a partial section on the same plane as 18, but on a larger scale and showing the parts in a different position; and Fig. 21 is a section on the line 2l-21 in Fig. 20.

The illustrated embodiment of the invention is a machine desi ned particularly for making elongated blocks, which may be sub sequently divided into shorter blocks, which are formed into shoe-heels. he machine produces the elongatedblocks by pasting and assembling strips of leather-board or other sheet-material, and pressing and holding the strips together until the paste has set. It is provided with means for holding a supply of strips of sheet-material, these strips being arranged in stacks of graded widths. From the stacks, the machine automatically withdraws strips of the right number and in the proper order to make a heel-block graded in width from top to bottom in accordance with a predetermined design. The machine then applies paste to certain of the strips, superposes all the strips upon each other in a pile, and introduces the pile into a clamp, by which the strips are pressed. together and held until the paste has set, thus producing a solid elongated block. T his block is then automatically dis charged from the machine.

The product of the machine is illustrated in 13. There the heel-strip block B is shown as comprising a series of strips S of graded widths and uniform thickness. Next to the lowest strip is shown a wedge-strip N, which is tapering in cross-section, so that the upper and lower surfaces of the heelstrip block are not parallel. It will be apparent to those skilled in the art of shoemahing that short pieces cut from the block, by transverse saw-cuts, will have a cross section approximating the fore-and-aft section of a shoe-heel of ordinary form, and it will also be apparent that this section may be varied, to produce heels of different forms, by variations in the graded widths of the strips S, or in the number of wedge-lifts il which are introduced.

he means for holding the supply of st ips are shown particularly in Figs. 1 to 5. The strips S of each of the graded widths are arranged in a stack, each stack is supported upon flat horizontal bars 22, so that the stack extends horizontally, while the strips stand on edge in nearly vertical position. Near their inner ends, the bars 22 are supported on horizontal cross-bars 23 which, in turn, rest upon collars fixed on vertical rods l these vertical rods constituting parts of the stationary framework of the machine. At their outer ends, the bars 22 rest on cross-bars 25, which are mounted on collars on stationary vertical rods or frame-members 26.

The inner ends of the downwardly at a slight inclination, as shown bars 22 are bent I are forced inwa dly against these ends 27,

the strips assume a slightly inclined position, the innermost strip of each stack standing clear of the angular extremities of the supporting bars beneath, but being retained in the stack by its frictional engagement with the bars above and with the next adjacent strip in the stack. To retain the strips in this position and feed them inwardly against the parts 27 as they are removed, a follower is provided for each stack, inthe form of a bar 28 which slides upon the bars 22.

T he follower 28 is pressed constantly against the outer end of the stack by mechanism comprising lazy-tongs 29, of which one end is attached to the follower. The other end of the lazy-tongs is attached to a block 30 mounted on the frame-rods 26 between the cross-bars 25 (Figs. 1 and 4). An arm 31, projecting outwardly from one of the members of each lazy-tongs, is connected with a tension-spring 32, of which the other end is fixed to the corresponding block 30, and this spring tends to cause extension of the lazy tongs, so as to press the follower inwardly.

The strips are fed from the stacks by automatic mechanism, shown particularly in F 1, 3, 4i and 5'. This mechanism com prises two pairs of s1: roclret-chains 83, which extend vertically between the inner ends of the stacks. One pair of chains is supported,

above and below, upon sprocket-wheels 34 d 35, fixed upon shafts 36 and 87 respec- *ely, these shafts turning in, bearings on the frame of the machine. The other pair 0 chains is similarly supported by shafts 39 and 4:1.

Each sprocket-chain carries a feed-linger 38, which is rigidly attached to one of its links and extends outwardly from the chain, terminating in a hooked extremity. The chains move continuously in a direction to cause the fingers 38 to movedownwardly past the stacks of strips, and the extremities of the fingers engage the upper edge of the outermost strip of each stack as they pass by, and withdraw this strip by a downward movement. The strip then falls freely past the lower stacks and into engagement with. the other parts of the mechanism.

To impart a continuous movement to the chains 33, the shafts 37 and 41 are connected together at one end, as shown in Fig. 8, by gearsfi2, and a sprocket-wheel d3 is fixed on the shaft ll. This sprocket-wheel isconnected, by a chain li, with a sprochet-wheel on a shaft L5. The shaft is connected, by skew-gears 4:6 and 47, with the main shaft as of the machine.

The main shaft 48 is provided with pulleys and 51, the latter being a loose pulley, while the former is arranged to drive the to the left with the shaft, through clutch-mechanism hereinafter described. 7

As the strips fall downwardly, in their feeding movement, they are received by members which may be described as rockers, andwhich areshown particularly in Figs. 2, 4; and 5. The strips from the right-hand side of the machine are received by rockers 52, while the strips from the left-hand side of the machine are received by rockers 56.

Each rocker comprises two parallel 1 armsconstituting a fork of which the ends are inclined away, from each other to facilitate the reception of a strip between them. The rockers 52 are mounted in a set of four on a rock-shaft 53, and they stand upright, as shown in dotted lines in Fig. 5, for the reception of the strip. After receiving a strip, however, the shaft is turned to swing the rockers into the horizontal-position shown in full lines in Fig. 5, whereby the strip held by the rockers is turned into a horizontal plane and is brought into a position atv the middle of the machine.

In the case of two of the rockers 52, one arm is elongated to provide a circular segment 54.. arrest a strip which may be fed while the rockers are in horizontal position, and to hold this strip until the rockers have swung back to the vertical position in which they may receive the strip. The ,strip, when held by the part 54%, is supported laterally by downward extensions 50 from the lowermost of the bars'22, as shown in Fig. 5.

The rockers 56 are constructed and operate the same as therockers 52, except that their actuating shaft 57 is lower than, and of, the shaft 53,.and is arranged to swing them in the opposite direction to that of the rockers 52,.but at the same time. By this arrangement,.the strips upon which the rockers 56 act are brought into horizontal position directly beneath the strips handled by the rockers 52.

In order to operate the rockers'in the manner above described, gear segments 58 and 59, which ineshtogether, are fixed on the ends of the shafts'53 and 57, as shown inFig 3, and the segment 59 is provided with gear-teeth which mesh with a segment 61 journaled on the frame of the machine. The segment 61 is connected, by a rod 62, with a camroller 63, and this roller engages an open cam 64- fixed on the shaft 45. The operative movements of the rockers are produced by a tensionspring 60 connected segment 61, while the cam 64 acts to produce the idle return-movements of the rockers. c V

In pasting the strips, preparatory to assembling them in a pile, it isv desirable to avoid the application of anypasteto the uppermost and lowermost surfaces" of the chine is arranged to paste certain of the The function of this segment is to pile, since these surfaces are engaged by the assembling and clamping mechanisms of the machine. As asimple method of providing paste at the proper points only, the mastrips on both sides, and to alternate these strips with unpasted strips, the arrangement beingsuch that thefirst and last strips of each pile are unpasted. It is for this purposethat the rockers are employed in two sets, which are arranged to bring the strips into different vertical positions, as above described. The rockers 56 bring the strips intoalinement with paste-rollers, while the rockers 52 bring the strips into alinement with plain feed-rollers, located above the paste-rollers.

The feed-rollers 65 and 66 are shown 1331'? ticularly in Figs. 5 and 8. They are provided with flanges which engage the later al surfaces of the strips. The roller 66. is mounted directly on the main-shaft 48, so as to be rotated constantly,-and a gear 67, also fixed on the shaft, engages 'a gear 68 fixed on the shaft of the roller 65, so as to drive the latter at the same rate, of speed as the lower roller. The bite of these rollers is in line with the strip when it is held by the rockers 52 in horizontal position, as

shown in Fig. 5. c

The paste-rollers are. arranged below, and somewhat in the rear of, the feed-rollers. They comprise upper and lower rollers 69 and 71 respectively, having smooth surfaces adapted to apply paste over the faces of a 1 strip, while advancing the strip in the same direction as in the case of the feed-rollers.

In order to rotate the paste-rollers con stantly, the shaft of the lower roller :71 is provided with a pinion 72, which engages 1 an intermediate gear 73v journaled on the frame of the machine, and the gear 73 is driven, in turn, by apinion 74 on the shaft 48. The upper paste-roller 69 is driven by gears 70 connecting the shafts of the two 1 paste-rollers. a Y c To provide pasteupon'the surface of the lower roller 71, a paste-trough 7 5 is fixed below this roller, and the roller dips into the paste in the trough, as shown particularly in Figs. 5 and 6. The upper paste-roller 69 is fed with paste by means of a perforated spray-pipe 76, the surplus paste from the spray-pipebeing collected by a doctor 77, which discharges pastecfrom its ends into 12 the trough 75. The paste in the trough 75 overflows, through a pipe 78, into a tank 7 9, and from this tank the paste is drawn by a rotary pump 81, which discharges it, through a pipe 82, to the spray-pipe 76. The pump 81 isdriven by a belt 83 connecting it with apulley 84 on the'shaft of the lower pasteroller. i 1

It isimportant to avoidthe presence'of paste on the edges of the strips, in order .13

that they may not adhere to the clampmechanism and. other parts which engage the edges of the strips. rocordingly scrapers are provided, as shown particularly in Figs. 6 and 7, to remove any paste which applied to the edges by the paste-rollers. These scrapers are in the form of plates 85, which are mounted on the upper ends of arms 86 in position to engage the edges of the strip as it issues from the paste-rollers. The arms are pivoted on heads 87 so that they may swing toward each other and toward the edges of the strip, and these heads are adj ustably mounted on a transverse rod 88 fixed on the frame of the machine. Each head is provided with a depending arm 89, to which one end of a tensicn spring 91 is attached, the other end of the spring being attached to a lug on the corresponding arm 86. These springs tend to rock the arms toward each other, so as to maintain the scrapers resiliently in engagement with the strips, regardless of variations in their width. The scrapers have rearwardly extending inclined portions to facilitate the reception of the advancing end of the strip, and they are also provided, as shown in the drawings, with downwardly extending troughs 92, which discharge the paste removed by the scrapers into the pastetrough 7 In order to cause the strips to first engage the feed-rollers and the paste rollers, it is necessary to impart a short longitudinal motion to the strips while they are held in the rockers, and a mechanism for this purpose is shown particularly in Figs. 2, 3 and a. An arm 128 is fixed on a rock-shaft 129, which is journaled in brackets 180 on the frame of the machine. The arm has por tions located in position to engage the rear ends of the strips in the rockers. The rockshaft 129 is provided with an arm 131 (Fig. a), which is pivoted to a rod 132 carrying a cam-roller 183 on its opposite end. This roller engages a face-cam 134. on the shaft 15. A tension-spring 185 is also connected with the rod and with the frame of the machine. At suitable times, controlled by the cam 13%, the spring pulls the rod 132 so as to rock the shaft, and the pusher-arm 128, in a direction to cause the latter to push the strips forwardly into engagement with the feedrollers and the laaste rollers.

It is desirable that, in case the supply of strips in any of the stacks becomes exhausted during the operation of the machine. the machine shall stop until the supply has been renewed, in order that it may not go on working and produce imperfect results. Accordingly, the machine is provided with automatic mechanism for stopping it in such a contingency.

The bearings of the upper feed-roller 65 and the upper paste-roller 69 are pressed may have been downwardly by springs 93, shown in dotted lines in Figs. 5 and 6, to cause these rollers to hear firmly against the strips passing beneath them, and whenever no strip is present between the rollers the springs act to move the upper rollers downwardly through a space equal to the thickness of a strip. Advantage is taken of this movement of the rollers to control the operation of the automatic stop-mechanism.

The pulley 4:9, as shown particularly in Figs. 8 and 9, is connected with the shaft 18 by clute'h-niember 941, which is keyed to the shaft 418, and controlled by a clutch-lever 95-. A spring 96, attached to this lever, tends to swing it in a direction to disengage the clutch-member, this movement being arrested by engagement of the member 94: with a collar 97 fixed on the shaft 48.

' After the machine has been set in motion, by manual movement of the clutch-lever95 in a direction to engage the clutch-members, the lever is normally retained in the position shown in the drawings by means of a bolt 98, which slides vertically in the frame of the machine and engages,- at its end, a

beveled lug 99 on the clutch-lever (Fig.

A spring 100, coiled about the bolt and'en gaging a collar thereon, tends to raise the bolt, but it is normally held in depressed position by a hook-shaped detent 101 pivoted alongside the bolt in a position to engage the fiange,'as shown in Figs. 5 and 8.

The detent is pivotally connected with two rods 102 and 103' which are pivoted, in turn, to arms of two bell-crank levers 10 1 and 105 pivoted on the frame of the machine. These levers have horizontal arms which arec'onnected, respectively, with rods 106 and 107. The rod 106' eXtends downwardly into engagement with the reduced end of the shaft of the upper paste-roller 69, while the rod 107 extends upwardly to the reduced end of the shaft of the upper feed-roller 65. g

The bell cra'nk levers 104 and 105 are also connected with depending rods 108 and 109, respectively, which are connected, at their lower ends, with bell-crank levers 111 mounted on the frame of. the machine. These levers are connected, in turn, by rods 112, to depending arms 113 and 11 1 pivoted on the frame of the machine.

The arms 113 and 114L- cooperate' with stopdisks 115 and 116, which'a re mounted upon and rotated by a camshaft 117. The arms 113 and 114 have each a lug 118 at their lower extremities, and these lugs cooperate.

with the peripheries of the disks 115 and 116. The disk 115 has-a series of notches in its periphery, these notches corresponding to the number of strips which may be fed through the paste-rollers for the production of each block, while the disk 116 has notches a toothed clutch comprising a sliding corresponding with the number of strips which may be fed through the feed-rollers. These notches are so placed as to come successively opposite the lugs 118, in consequence of the rotation of the shaft 117, at

the times when the feed-rollers and the paste-rollers are normally separated by the presence, between them, of strips.

Tension springs 119, connected with the bell-crank levers 11, tend to swing these levers in a direction to cause the lugs 118 to press against the peripheries of the stopdisks. Whenever one of the notches is opposite one of the lugs, the spring may cause a movement of the parts which, communicated to the detent 101 through the intervening rods and bell-crank levers, causes this detent to disengage the bolt 98 and release the clutch-lever. This action can occur, however, only if, owing to the absence of a strip between the rollers, the upper feedroller or the upper paste-roller is moved downwardly, thus releasing the corresponding bell-crank lever 104 or 105 from the restraint of the rod 106 or 107. The notches on the stop-disks are so located as to be opposite the lugs 118 at such times as the strips should be present between the rollers. The unbroken portions of the peripheries of the stop-disks are opposite the lugs 118 at all other times. Consequently, the automatic stop can and does operate only at the times when strips should be between the feed-rollers and the paste-rollers, and only in case a strip is not present at any such time.

In order that the machine may be adapted to build blocks of various numbers of strips, the stop-disks are provided with adjustable filler-blocks 121, located in thenotches in their peripheries, these blocks being movable to positions in which any of the notches are closed at the periphery, leaving only so many notches as correspond to the number of strips which are to be fed, and to the times in the cycle of operations in which such strips'should be present between the feed-rollers and the paste-rollers.

The cam-shaft 117 is driven by means of a sprocket-wheel 122 fixed upon it (Fig. 3), this wheel being connected, by a chain 123, with a sprocket-wheel 124 on a shaft'125, journaled on the frame of the machine. The shaft 125 carries a worm-gear 126, which is rotated by a worm 127 on the main-shaft 48.

The strips which have been withdrawn from the rockers by the feed-rollers and the paste-rollers are discharged and assembled upon a support in the form of an elongated horizontal plate 136. This plate is supported by depending lugs 137, which slide upon parallel rods 138 constituting a part of the frame of the machine.

In order to guide the strips to their superposed positions upon the support, and also to continue the longitudinal movement of the strips after they leave the control of the main feed-rollers and the paste-rollers, supplementary feed-rollers are employed, as shown particularly in Figs. 6, 8 and 10. A pair of such rollers, 139 and 141, act on the strip issuing from the main feed-rollers 65 and 66, while a second pair of similar supplementary rollers, 142 and 143, act upon the strip issuing from the paste-rollers.

The rollers 1.41 and 143 are mounted on shafts 144 and 145, which turn in bearings 146 on the frame of the machine. The shaft 145 carries a pinion 147, meshing with an idler-gear 148 journaled on the frame of the machine, and the gear 148 meshes, in turn, with a pinion 149 on the shaft 144. The pinion 147 is driven by engagement with the gear 73, hereinbefore referred to, and the rollers 141 and 143 are thus driven at the same peripheral speed as the main feed-rollers and the paste-rollers.

The rollers 139 and 142 are fixed on shafts which turn in bearings 151. These bearings are mounted on pivots, as shown by dotted lines in Fig. 8, so that they may rock in a direction to move the rollers 139 and 142 downwardly. This rocking movement is produced by tension-springs 152 attached to the bearings 151, and thus the upper roller of each pair is caused to press firmly against the strip. The supplementary feed-rollers are arranged somewhat lower than the main feed-rollers and the paste-rollers, so as to bend the strips downwardly toward the position which they are to assume on the support 136. The strips are delivered upon the support 136 in superposed, approximately parallel positions, and are afterward more exactly alined, with respect to their-lateral edges, by mechanism to be hereinafter described. Exact alinement of their ends is produced by means of end-gages 153 and 154, shown particularly in Fig. 6. The gage 153 is fixed adjustably to the support 136, while the gage 154 is fixed adj ustably on the rods 138, and is bifurcated to clear the roller 143. The strips are delivered to the support in pairs, as shown in Fig. 6, and at thetime of such delivery, the support is in a lefthand position (as seen in F 6). After such delivery, however, the support is auto matically moved in a right-hand or rear: ward direction, so as to engage the gage 153 with the forward ends of the strips, and then.

to move the strips rearwardly into engagement with the rearv end-gage 154, thus alining the strips last'delivered accurately with the lower strips of the pile.,

The means for moving the support 136 as above described are shown particularly. in Figs. 6 and 10. A rod 155 is pivoted to the rear end of the support and to the upper end of an arm 156, and this arm is fixed on a rock-shaft 157, which turns in bearings en the frame of the machine; Asecond-arm 

